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Quote by Jonathan Swift
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the h

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. – Jonathan Swift

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Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybodys face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. – Jonathan Swift

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Satire
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Jonathan Swift
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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. – Jonathan Swift

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Age
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Jonathan Swift
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power
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured. – Stendhal

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power

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. – Booker T. Washington

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power

The attacks of September 11 – and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas – embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others. – Jon Meacham

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power

It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of Americas power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say this is one nation under God. – Pat Robertson

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power

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I see music as fluid architecture. – Joni Mitchell

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Our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the Constitution of the United States. – Mitt Romney

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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted. – Garrison Keillor

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parenting

Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man. – Decimus Magnus Ausonius

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